The Jellyfish

[mackiedlm]

Another from my couple of clear nights around New Year.

Managed 4 hours on this one which I know is not enough but even at that I am a little disappointed with it if I'm honest. Maybe my focus or tracking was off a bit but it just does not feel as crisp as I'd like it

Hypercam 269C, SW 80ED, NEQ6

79 X 180s with L-eNhance filter

Stacked APP, processed Pixinsight

C&C Welcome

[AstroNtinos]

Wow i like this image. Nice work.

[MartinB]

It looks great.  I've always found the Jellyfish quite tricky to process and you have done a very nice job.  The L-enhance filter seems to have failed to pick up the fine OIII signal around the periphery.

[peter shah]

As Martin has already said...its actually quite difficult to process....thats a lovely shot there

[mackiedlm]

3 hours ago, MartinB said:

It looks great.  I've always found the Jellyfish quite tricky to process and you have done a very nice job.  The L-enhance filter seems to have failed to pick up the fine OIII signal around the periphery.

Thanks for that Martin.

I think whats happened here is that I had about 85% moon and not that far off target. The L-enhance is great but you definitely get some moonlight leakage in the Oiii band and I think this may have swamped the fine Oiii.  It would be interesting to try the same target on a moonless night.

On the other hand it could just be my Ham-fisted processing😀

rgds

David.